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December 21, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Florida Resident Sentenced on Oxycodone Charge

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A 28 year old Ormond Beach, Florida, resident was sentenced on December 21, 2011, in United States District Court in Wheeling by Judge Frederick P. Stamp, Jr.

United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced that RICHARD ROUSH was sentenced to 168 months imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release. ROUSH entered a plea of guilty on August 2, 2011, to one count of conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone from at least February of 2010 to March 26, 2011, in the Ohio and Marshall County, West Virginia, areas. ROUSH was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshal pending designation to a Federal institution.

As part of his plea ROUSH admitted to engaging in “doctor shopping” with at least two other Florida residents and then providing the pills they obtained to the leaders of the conspiracy. ROUSH and other co-conspirators are responsible for acquiring over 100,000 Oxycodone pills in the State of Florida that were then transported to the Ohio Valley for redistribution.

The case was prosecuted by USA Ihlenfeld and Assistant United States Attorney John C. Parr. The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the West Virginia State Police-Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the Ohio Valley Drug & Violent Crime Task Force, the Moundsville Police Department, the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Division, the Martins Ferry Police Department, the Volusia Bureau of Investigations - Central Florida HIDTA, and the Drug Enforcement Administration in Orlando, Florida. The Ohio Valley Drug & Violent Crime Task Force consists of the Wheeling Police Department, the Ohio County Sheriff’s Department, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.